Quotes About Openness

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.

You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.

Every soul needs to experience authentic, no-holds-barred love. That's why it's important to be vulnerable, to be exposed, to be out there leading with your open heart. No excuses. Too many of us worry about getting hurt, so we block our true feelings, protect our hearts, and hide behind "You have no idea how much I love you.

Organs are supple and capable of adapting to different situations and domains. Finally, they are open to development, and this is precisely what "stable systems" (Case, 1992a, p. 5) are not. But organs are much more complex than such systems, and it is much more difficult to understand them.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

Many a man thinks he has an open mind, when it's merely vacant.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me.

Offensiveness is a necessary consequence of opinions strongly held and openly expressed, and free societies should treasure and protect it. An idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

If a writer knows everything that is going to happen, then his book is dead before he begins it.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

Believe them and they'll tell you all sorts of things.

Radical acceptance requires being open to fully experiencing your own life, as it is, without wishing it were not so and without pretending it is different. Acceptance is entering into the reality of this moment, without judgment. Radical acceptance is the fulcrum that balances validation and change.

Willingness is giving up trying to control behaviors or outcomes. By giving up control you can do what is needed in any situation. Willingness is wholehearted, spontaneous participation, responding to situations as needed, without resentment or preconceived ideas of what has to be done, how to do it, or when to do it.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

You won't feel under-dressed when with your naked heart you come to me, for mine is past the point to dress for company.

Si se le da la razón a Popper, como creo que debe hacerse, la conclusión a la cual se debe llegar es que la verdad misma es enemiga de la sociedad abierta y, en particular, de toda política democrática.

The greater our understanding of the Bible's teaching about the depth of human sin, the less we are likely to be shocked by the revelations of our friends' struggles, and the more we will be willing to be open with them about our own. From

For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?